State Dept. denies deal was close yesterday

US State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf denies reports from yesterday morning that a deal with Iran was nearly reached and the Iranians backed out at the last minute.

“Unfortunately the details in that story aren’t accurate,” Harf says. “The notion that we had some agreement in the last 24 hours is factually inaccurate.”

“All of the details of this agreement are interrelated to each other, nothing is agreed until everything is agreed,” Harf says. “On that specific issue of whether their stockpile will be shipped to another country or will be diluted in-country, we and Iran have not come to an agreement on that, even tentatively. So the notion that in the last 24 hours there has been some breakdown in that agreement on that issue just isn’t accurate.”